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Orthomolecular Medicine for PANDAS

This chart from PANDAS Network shows the devastating symptoms associated with this disorder.http://www.pandasnetwork.org/understanding-pandaspans/what-is-pandas/​

Orthomolecular medicine offers amazing possiblities. With the right combination of therapeutic doses of specific vitamins and filling all other needs, our childrens bodies have the amazing potential to mend. Through trial and error with my own children as well as clients I have found the specific vitamins that are key to this life altering disorder. For starter we need to tackle the streptococcus bacteria naturally without using antibiotics that, in the long run, will only make things worse.

​ Vitamin C

Not only is this vitamin extremely cheap to supplements but there is no toxic dosage. Which means it is extremely safe for our PANDAS children. I was able to erradicate my daughter strep throat within one week on bowel tolerance doses of vitamin c. We also teamed oral ascorbic acid up with liposomal vitamin c. I did get her a prescription for antibiotics just incase but I am very glad we did not use it because now we know how easy it is to beat this, naturally.

" Vitamin C is superior to antibiotics because the nutrient marshals the body’s natural resources to fight off infection, Dr. Brownstein said. Also, he added, “If you look at the history of vitamin C I don’t know of one infectious organism that has grown resistant to it.” Drug resistance, on the other hand, has emerged as a worldwide problem."http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/505878

​"Vitamin C is known to play an essential part in the oxidation-reduction system of tissue respiration and to contribute to the development of antibodies and the neutralization of toxins in the building of natural immunity to infectious diseases. There is a very potent chemotherapeutic action of ascorbic acid when given in massive repeated doses, 500 to 1,000 mg. (hourly), preferably intravenously or intramuscularly. When thus administered the effect in acute infectious processes is favorably comparable to that of the sulfonamides or the mycelial antibiotics, but with the great advantage of complete freedom from toxic or allergic reactions." Dr. McCormick.

Vitamin B3 - Niacinamide​Little bits of information that I have gathered over time has brought me to the conclusion that vitamin b3 is imperative for those that suffer from emottional or behavioral issues. The issue is not just a deficiency but also a genetic dependency. A dependency requires high doses more frequently. Niacinamide raises leukocytes which are the bacteria destroying white blood cells. This vitamin is also important for tissue respiration for the brain to function optimally.

I have whitnessed full resolution of emotiona and behavioral issues including severe tics, using niacinamide with vitamin c.

"On page 73 of Kaufman’s 1949 book, The Common Form of Joint Dysfunction. So accurately does it describe the problems ofADHD children that it is difficult to believe that vitamin B3 (which never causes cancer) has been so thoroughly ignored for so long.Kaufman continues: “With vitamin therapy, such a patient becomes unaccustomedly calm, working more efficiently, finishingwhat he starts, and he loses the feeling that he is constantly driving himself. He has leisure time that he does not know how touse. When he feels tired, he is able to rest, and does not feel impelled to carry on in spite of fatigue. If such a patient can be persuaded to continue with niacinamide therapy, in time he comes to enjoy a sense of well-being, realizing in retrospect thatwhat he thought in the past was a superabundance of energy and vitality was in reality an abnormal ‘wound-up’ feeling, whichwas an expression of aniacinamidosis (niacin deficiency).” http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2003/pdf/2003-v18n01-p029.pdf

"The allergic symptoms can be produced by sublingual challenge or by fasting and then feeding one food at a time as a challenge. The symptoms produced will vary all the way from a slight itching of the skin to psychotic reactions. One patient cried all afternoon after being given a sublingual test for milk. Another patient, suffering from schizophrenia, was given a sublingual test for cigarettes. Five minutes after the test began, she turned on her mother with a very savage verbal attack which continued for approximately half an hour. Another patient known to be sugar and wheat sensitive suffers from chronic schizophrenia which is rather easily controlled unless he ignores his prescribed diet. Several days ago, this patient ate a slice of apple pie. Following the ingestion of the pie, he began actively hallucinating, was quite delusional and angry, and uncontrollable. "

"The other group was given no nicotinic acid. Each of the groups was then exposed once more to the serum to which they were allergic. The animals which had received the niacin remained alive, and the other animals all died. The possibility is very strong that niacin is protecting some patients from cerebral allergic responses."http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1973/pdf/1973-v02n03-p084.pdf

"With orthomolecular treatment, results are frequently quick in starting and the reduction in hyperactivity often dramatic, but in most instances several months elapse before significant changes are seen. The child exhibits a willingness to cooperate with his parents and teachers. Concentration and attention span increases, and the child is able to work productively for increasingly larger periods of time. "

"Early intervention is of the utmost importance , not only for the child, but for the entire family since the child suffering from minimal brain dysfunction is such a devastating influence on the family constellation. He is the matrix of emotional storm which envelope every member of the household and disrupt both their reltionship to him and to each other."

"Positive results have been have been obtained when the treatment regimen consisted of the following vitamins - niacinamide 1-2 grams daily depending upon body weight and ascorbic acid 1-2 grams daily." - Alan Cott, A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine.I feel that bowel tolerance is a more effective dose of vitamin c for PANDAS.

Vitamin C and B3 can have some amazing benefits on a PANDAS child. It is also important that we limit their toxin exposure through food, water, and environment. Make sure that they are getting enough nutrients. The vitamin b3 will be an important factor for those children that refuse to eat and are very non compliant.